military and espionage

The Legend of Lotus Spring is almost like an interactive, historical museum rather than an adventure game. Designed as a CD-ROM for women, this game will appeal to girls turned off to games focused on running and shooting, and art historians who favor Chinese history. As an adventure game, it has almost no adventure, relying instead on heavy "emotional" story content, much like a romance novel. The settings and animated movies are wonders of historical reproduction and lovers of Chinese antiquity will enjoy opening cabinets to examine robes, playing traditional instruments, or doing sumi painting, but action fans will most likely abandon this before finishing. I would've loved this as a junior high girl, but as an adult techno-goddess, it's back to the boys' games for now.

Game produced to appeal to a specific audience - namely teenage girls with nothing better to do with their time. That is fine, and may be benificial as the monotany may force them outside, away from their monitors.

Repetitious and tedious. Buy if watching grass grow adds excitement to your life.

Lotus Spring has very nicely done graphics and intricate details. However, there's virtually no plot to the game. Right from the beginning I was already confused as to what exactly the point of the story would be. You end up going around beautiful scenaries looking for really pointless and boring poems. I made myself finish the game because I didn't want to waste my money.